October 2011 Book Selection

The October book and activities are for grades 4-12.The October book selection is Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool.




"Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past."
Moon Over Manifest was on the 2011 Newbery Award and Honors books.

Please RSVP to Mindy Engler engler_m@ccsdistrict.org by 3:00 PM Friday, October 21 if you will be particpating in this month's activities. Please state if you want to receive the 8 LPDC contact hours, the 6.5 Staff Development hours, or both.

Discussions and lesson plans need to be posted by 9:00 PM Sunday, October 30
We will meet to discuss the book on Monday, October 31 from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Timken Library. Please enter the Timken Commons from the 4th St. parking lot at Door 2. The Library is on the second floor up the big, blue staircase.

Discussion Questions:



To add you lesson plan:

1. Save your lesson plan as a word document.
2. Name your lesson plan the title of the book - your name (Example: Scars-Mindy)
3. Click on "Edit This Page" - PLEASE make sure the curser is below "Please add your Lesson Plans here;"
4. Click the File button on the Edit bar
5. Click Upload Files
6. Highlight your lesson plan
7. Click Open
8. Once your document is listed, double click on it. It "should" appear on this page.
9. Click "Save" on the upper right hand corner of the Edit bar.

(or you can jsut email your lesson plan to me)

Please add your Lesson Plans here: